California · Nonprofit
DOWNTOWN CHICO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
DOWNTOWN CHICO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,660 to it, the largest being EXPLORE BUTTE COUNTY ($42,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $451k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $67k
- Net assets
- $-28531
What Downtown Chico Business Association does
Mission
Promote interest and trade and beautify the downtown business environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Promote interest and trade and beautify the downtown business environment.
$414,321 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $414,321.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $35k to $209k (+497%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of DOWNTOWN CHICO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $30k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of DOWNTOWN CHICO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DOWNTOWN CHICO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DOWNTOWN CHICO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of DOWNTOWN CHICO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
DOWNTOWN CHICO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DOWNTOWN CHICO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOWNTOWN CHICO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DOWNTOWN CHICO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION?
- DOWNTOWN CHICO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,660 to it, the largest being EXPLORE BUTTE COUNTY ($42,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN CHICO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $66,660 in grants to DOWNTOWN CHICO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN CHICO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION?
- EXPLORE BUTTE COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $42,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN CHICO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing